Even among the typically intense cohort of major league pitchers, Max Scherzer stands out as the most intensely competitive. Off the field, he’s a kind soul who devotes his time to animal charities. On the field, he’s terrifying. This is a guy who once took the mound with a broken nose and his face covered in bruises after a batting practice accident.
Scherzer is so competitive that he got ticked off on Monday when he got a strikeout without having to work for it.
In the first inning of his start against the Angels, Scherzer got ahead in the count on Brandon Drury, 1–2.
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If you have ever witnessed an Associated Press poll voter actually vote, you may look at it differently.
One football poll voter actually blamed his local Sunday newspaper for his ejection from the poll years ago. Seems the paper did not have a late score from the night before involving a team he was considering for the poll right at deadline. He left the team out, and he was history.
I once saw three A.P. basketball poll voters in a media work room just before the vote deadline frantically asking one another what certain teams did that week for their polls.
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James Harden’s only leverage is making Joel Embiid miserable with 76ers, too.
James Harden is no longer the perennial NBA MVP candidate he was during his prime. On the brink of his 34th birthday, Harden is still capable of performing at an All-Star level if not a superstar level. He remains one of the better playmakers in the league — he led the NBA in assists per game last season — and a deadly three-point shooter off the dribble, but the burst that once made him unguardable at the point of attack is all but gone.
NBA 2K24 released its gameplay trailer for this year’s iteration of the popular video game, and one clip set the internet ablaze.
The 101-second trailer features clips of some of the NBA’s biggest stars doing their signature moves, from Stephen Curry’s remarkable fadeaway threes to Jimmy Butler’s hilarious celebrations and everything in between.
But one featured move caught everyone’s attention: A Jordan Poole iso against, you guessed it, Draymond Green. The trailer shows Poole in his new Wizards uniform gesturing for a clearout before firing a deep stepback jumper.
The (very early) legend of Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson has escalated faster than many fans and analysts expected it to. The No. 4 pick in the 2023 NFL draft was named the team’s starter for Week 1 of the upcoming season by coach Shane Steichen on Tuesday.
Richardson was viewed by many as more of a raw talent with tremendous upside, but it seems he’s impressed on a high level through training camp and early preseason action. Now, the hopeful future face of the Colts franchise will get his opportunity to hit the ground running at the NFL level.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Phil Mickelson and Lanny Wadkins hold the Ryder Cup at Oak Hill Country Club in 1995. | Photo by Frank Christian/The PGA of America
Lanny Wadkins, who captained Team USA in the 1995 Ryder Cup, appeared on Golf Channel’s Golf Today and threw some shade at Phil Mickelson.
Former Ryder Cup captain Lanny Wadkins appeared on Golf Channel’s Golf Today Monday and made some bold statements about Phil Mickelson.
“I don’t know that there has ever been a more disappointing figure in golf than Phil Mickelson,” Wadkins said Monday.
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When it comes to NFL broadcasters, Al Michaels faces minimal criticism compared to most. However, in his first season calling games on Amazon, there was a little bit of blowback on social media regarding Michaels’s energy while calling some of the awful games that were played Thursday nights.
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The entire stupid Musk vs. Zuck saga, explained.
The Mark Zuckerberg vs. Elon Musk fight has unquestionably been the stupidest sports story of the summer. Two bickering billionaires, competing to see who’s the most loathsome, teased the possibility of a charity MMA fight to determine who was less sad.
Since then it’s morphed into a mom banning the fight, the Coliseum being involved, a possible surgery, and a late-night fight challenge at a mansion.
On Tuesday, a dozen worthy candidates will be presented to the Pro Football Hall of Fame contributors committee. There are a handful who could easily be voted through without much dispute. Just one will be selected, and that one almost certainly will be rubber-stamped by the larger committee for induction in the class of 2024.
To me, there’s really only one on the list who’s a head-scratcher. And by head-scratcher, I mean, you wonder how the guy is not in already.
That guy is Mike Shanahan.
Shanahan is a legend in Denver, where he won two Super Bowls.
Good morning, I’m Dan Gartland. I can’t stop watching Spain’s winning goal from this morning.
In today’s SI:AM:
🗣️ Harden’s comments about Morey
🇪🇸 Another World Cup thriller
🏈 Fantasy QB rankings
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James Harden has made himself clear: He’s not going to play for the Sixers this season. But this doesn’t seem like your typical trade request.
Harden exercised his $35.